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In this paper we examine the labour quality explanation of the employer size-wage gap: larger firms pay higher wages because they employ more skilled workers. Most previous studies control for unobserved skills of workers by applying the fixed-effects estimator to longitudinal data, thus assuming time-invariant unobserved individual heterogeneity. We release this assumption by using a sample of moonlighters; ...
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The Manchester School
77 (2009), 6, S. 651-674
| Alexander Muravyev
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In the era of Basel II a powerful tool for bankruptcy prognosis is vital for banks. The tool must be precise but also easily adaptable to the bank's objectives regarding the relation of false acceptances (Type I error) and false rejections (Type II error). We explore the suitability of smooth support vector machines (SSVM), and investigate how important factors such as the selection of appropriate ...
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Journal of Forecasting
28 (2009), 6, S. 512-534
| Wolfgang Härdle, Yuh-Jye Lee, Dorothea Schäfer, Yi-Ren Yeh
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While there is little doubt that the probability of poor health increases with age, and that less healthy people face a more difficult situation on the labor market, the precise relationship between facing the risks of health deterioration and labor market instability is not well understood. Using 12 years of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel we study the nature of the relationship between ...
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Journal of Health Economics
28 (2009), 6, S. 1116-1125
| Peter Haan, Michal Myck
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Economic losses caused by tropical cyclones have increased dramatically. Historical changes in losses are a result of meteorological factors (changes in the incidence of severe cyclones, whether due to natural climate variability or as a result of human activity) and socio-economic factors (increased prosperity and a greater tendency for people to settle in exposed areas). This paper aims to isolate ...
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Environmental Impact Assessment Review
29 (2009), 6, S. 359-369
| Silvio Schmidt, Claudia Kemfert, Peter Höppe
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This paper examines the impact of underachievement on inequality of educational opportunities. It also investigates whether personality traits are a mediating mechanism between social origin and underachievement. Underachievement is defined as achieving a school attainment that is below the individual cognitive learning potential, measured by tests of fluid intelligence. The paper develops a definition ...
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Zeitschrift für Soziologie
38 (2009), 5, S. 418-440
| Johannes Uhlig, Heike Solga, Jürgen Schupp
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The longitudinal German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study has been providing microdata for social, behavioral, and economic research for over 25 years. This paper presents an overview of this nationally and internationally important infrastructural facility for empirical social research, and shows that SOEP data are of key sociological interest in two respects. First, they allow for annual representative ...
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Zeitschrift für Soziologie
38 (2009), 5, S. 350-357
| Jürgen Schupp
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Introduction: The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change defines the principle of common but differentiated responsibility (Art. 4.1 of UNFCCC). It is the common responsibility of all countries to pursue mitigation actions so as to achieve climate stabilization. The differentiated nature of historic responsibility, capabilities and economic situation creates a responsibility for developed ...
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Climate Policy
9 (2009), 5, S. 435-449
| Karsten Neuhoff
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Policy targets are used to improve the implementation of domestic and international actions, in a national context and in international frameworks. But how can domestic and international experience be useful for climate policy? Case studies point to the value of defining policy targets more broadly than final outcomes, which in the case of climate policy are CO2 emission reductions. There is a need ...
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Climate Policy
9 (2009), 5, S. 465-480
| Sarah Lester, Karsten Neuhoff
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This article surveys the experience of conditionality provisions applied by the World Bank, the IMF, bilateral donors, and the European Union's accession process. Ownership is essential for effective cooperation and requires domestic climate policies to be country-driven and decision-making to be equitable. Bilateral cooperation allows for a direct exchange of expertise and long-term relationships. ...
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Climate Policy
9 (2009), 5, S. 481-494
| Maike Sippel, Karsten Neuhoff
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In developing and transition economies, microlending has become an effective instrument for providing micro businesses with the necessary financial resources to launch operations. In industrialized countries, with their highly developed banking systems, however, there has been ongoing debate on the question of whether an uncovered demand for microlending services exists. The present pilot study explores ...
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Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
229 (2009), 5, S. 523-543
| Alexander S. Kritikos, Christoph Kneiding, Claas Christian Germelmann